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The Liberal Arts

A liberal-arts education develops an individual’s potential for understanding possibilities, perceiving consequences, creating novel connections and making life-altering choices. It fosters innovative and critical thinking as well as strong writing and speaking skills. The liberal arts prepare students for many possible careers, meaningful lives and service to society.

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Latest Videos

August 8, 2018

Summer Robotics:

A team of six students from across several fields of study spent part of the summer assembling Eugene, a soccer-playing robot. They assembled subsystems to collect the ball, move and shoot the ball (and learned just how powerfully it could shoot!) as well as the frame that carried this all, jumping off from guidelines for the 2018 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Student Design Competition.

June 25, 2018

Alumni in the Field:“Alumni in the Field” is an on-going series where alumni reflect on their career paths and how their Amherst experience shaped their lives. For Matt Glickman ’87, entrepreneurship is not about creating something new, but about taking the best ideas from a wide range of disciplines—a bit like a bee among a field of flowers—and apply them in new places.

May 31, 2018

Interview with Art Collector John Wieland ’58

John Wieland, Amherst College class of 1958, discusses his unique art collection on view at the Mead Art Museum Feb. 8–July 1, 2018. HOUSE: Selections from the Collection of John and Sue Wieland draws on the couple’s trove of more than 400 contemporary artworks by over 300 artists, all of which engage with the idea of the house as a fundamental element of people’s lives, an interest driven by John’s professional life as a home-builder.

March 26, 2018

ALUMNI IN THE FIELD: As part of our on-going Alumni in the Field series, where alumni reflect on their career paths and how their Amherst experience shaped their lives, meet Luciana Duarte ‘93, a native Brazilian, who was originally set on being a literature major, but found herself adding a new subject after an experience many fellow alumni can relate to: she took a class and fell in love with anthropology.

March 1, 2018

NEW SCIENCE CENTER: Amherst’s new science center is scheduled to open in the fall of 2018. The state-of-the-art building will be a home for teaching and research and offer additional classrooms and gathering spaces for the entire campus. The science center also will set a new standard in energy efficiency. The average science building uses 250 kilo BTUs per square foot per year; we intend to reduce that number by 73%. [Video transcript]

Protest!

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Explore the ethnography and history of collective mobilizations, and contemplate the future of protest for the U.S. and the world. Speak with organizers and participants of current uprisings to understand their concerns.

Algorithms

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Delve into the design and analysis of computer algorithms. Topics include set algorithms (e.g., sorting and searching), graph algorithms, string algorithms and matrix algorithms, as well as several different design paradigms..